...our nature, and its effects are seen in " expanding caution, relaxing dignity, unfreezing coldness, extorting reluctant gleams of pleasure from melancholy, and charming even the pangs of grief." ' — P. 150. Here there is much truth and good sense ; the strains that follow are of a still higher...

...thousand times better thanwit;— wit is then a beautiful and delightful part of our nature. There is no more interesting spectacle than to see the effects...it expanding caution, relaxing dignity, unfreezing coldness,—teaching age, and care, and pain, to smile, — extorting reluctant gleams of pleasure...

...thousand times better than wit ; — wit is then a beautiful and delightful part of our nature. There is no more interesting spectacle than to see the effects...pleasure from melancholy, and charming even the pangs G of grief. It is pleasant to observe how it penetrates through the coldness and awkwardness of society,...

...thousand times better than wit ; — wit is then a beautiful and delightful part of our nature. There is no more interesting spectacle than to see the effects...pleasure from melancholy, and charming even the pangs G of grief. It is pleasant to observe how it penetrates through the coldness and awkwardness of society,...

...our nature, and its effects are seen in " expanding caution, relaxing dignity, unfreezing coldness, extorting reluctant gleams of pleasure from melancholy, and charming even the pangs of grief." ' — P. 150. Here there is much truth and good sense ; the strains that follow are of a still higher...

...thousand times better than wit; wit is then a beautiful and delightful part of our nature. There is no more interesting spectacle than to see the effects...it expanding caution, relaxing dignity, unfreezing coldness,—teaching age, and care, and pain, to smile,—extorting reluctant gleams of pleasure from...

...thousand times better than wit — wit is then a beautiful and delightful part of our nature. There is no more interesting spectacle than to see the effects...the different characters of men ; than to observe its expanding caution, relaxing dignity, unfreezing coldness — teaching age, and care, and pain to...

...nature. There is no more interesting spectacle than to see the effect of wit upon the different character of men ; than to observe it expanding caution, relaxing dignity, unfreezing coldness — teachingage, and care, and pain to smile — extorting reluctant gleams of pleasure from melancholy,...

...thousand times better than wit ; wit is then, a beautiful and delightful part of our nature. There is no more interesting spectacle than to see the effects...observe how it penetrates through the coldness and awkardness of society, gradually bringing men nearer together, and, like the combined force of wine...

...thousand times better than wit; — wit is then a beautiful and delightful part of our nature. There is no more interesting spectacle than to see the effects...dignity, unfreezing coldness — teaching age, and core, and pain, to smile — extorting reluctant gleams of pleasure from melancholy, and charming even...